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At Labour’s 2025 conference, Starmer’s chosen political narrative has been to draw a line between himself and Nigel Farage, between Labour and Reform – a choice between “decency and decline”. Labour represents a progressive patriotism and national renewal – and Reform a backwards-facing “politics of grievance”.

Serbia, under instructions from a foreign intelligence service, accused those arrested of spreading racial hatred in Europe

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vow to end ‘poverty pay’ in social care.

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors

The Oscar winner was recognised for his services to drama in the King’s Birthday Honours

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie raised awareness of BRCA mutations in 2013 when she had a double mastectomy to cut her chance of developing cancer.

COMMENT: The chancellor Rachel Reeves’s pitch to get nearly a million young people into work is flawed – and the truth is that working in a place you hate can be torturous. But it’s also character-building, writes former supermarket checkout assistant Victoria Richards

The Government is set to introduce compulsory reading tests as part of its upcoming Schools White Paper.

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’